Air-ship.



No. 848,055. 'PATENTED MAR. 26,1907.

G. G. SGHWABEK.

AIR SHIP. APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 29. 1906.

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PATENTED MAR. 26, 1907.

G. G. SGHWABEK.

AIR SHIP. APPLICATION FILED mmze, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE e. 'SOHWAB OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND FRANCIS .1. NEKARADA, OF'NEW YORK, N. Y.

AIR-SHIP.

- Specification of Letters Patent.

I Patented March 26, 1907.

application filed January 29,1906. Serial No. 298,550. I

To all whom it ntwy concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE G. SCHWABEK,

a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, at present residing in the city, county,

and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Air-Ship, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is designed .to produce an air-ship that has means for elevation, means for propelling the ship to the front and backward, and is also provided with means for throwing some of the propulsion mechanism sg that it will assist in the elevation of the airs 1p.

The invention is also designed to provide a pivoted mechanism for turning the apparatus, this steering apparatus being also designed to be thrown in a position to assist in the propulsion.

A further object of the invention is to provide a compact, reliable, and easily-operated means for regulating the steering and also a simple device for throwing some. of the propulsion mechanism into an elevating position, and vice versa.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters and figures of reference. indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side view of the air-ship, showing the general arrangement of the different propellers and the parts of the ship.

Fig. is a stern view of'the air-ship with the steering a paratus arranged to'send the ship straight a sad. Fig. is a detail of the apparatus for changing part offthe propelling mechanism into an ad unct of the. elevation device. Fig. 4 is a section on line 4 4 in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a section, partly broken away, of the steering apparatus and the mechanism for transmitting mdtion to it; and Fig. ti is a section on line 6 6 in Fig. 5.

The body 10 of the air-ship is composed of any suitable material, such as bamboo or aluminium, and serves to support the vertical posts or standards 11, these in turn being braced by suitable stays and by the brace 11*. The outside standards 11 are provided on the top with the wings orpro ellers' 12,

' that are held and braced in suitab e position same relative positions.

with one of a train of gears 16, that are secured on the shaft .17, this shaft being supported in boxes on the top of the standards 1 1 a1.d also in the box 18 on the top of the central standard. The shaft 17 is set in motion by means of the sprocket 19, which is driven from the sprocket 20, which is fast on the shaft 22, b t ie chain 21 and is driven'in turn by means of the sprocketchain 23 from any suitable source 0 power 24.

The part of the device just described is the elevating mechanism and when set in motion 1 the wings 1.2 are adapted to lift the whole structure free from the ground.

Theshaft 25 extends back along the frame andthrough the bearing 26 andv is provided with the propeller 27, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, which propeller is arranged. to send the structure either forward or backward, according to its direction of rotation. Extending toward the front of the machine is a shaft 28, which is provided with one of a set of V three gears 29, which are shown more par- .ticularly in Fig. 3, the two other 5 arranged on two shafts 32, that rotate inside gears being of a pair of supporting-sleeves 30, these sleeves extending the desired distance on either side of the body 10 and being secured in the standards 31, which in turn are fastened onto the framework 10.

()n the ends of the shafts 30 is the set of miter-gears 33, which revolve the propellers 34. The sleeves 30 are fastened 'at the center bymeans of a suitable bolt or bolts through the flanges 30 and are maintained in their As shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the sleeve is in a position to hold the prt'ipellers 34 to assist in driving the machine fomvard or baclnvard; but a wormgear 35 is journaled so as to be in engagement with the gear 36 on one of the sleeves 30, and when this worm-gran is operated by means of thehandle 37 the sleevcs30 are tilted and can be arranged at a right angle to their shown position, so that the propellers 34 will operate in the same manner as the propellers 12, thereby assisting when not needed for propulsion in the elevation of the device.

At a suitable place on the shaft is arran ed the miter-gear 38, in turn driving a shaft 39, and thereby the gears 40 and 41. The gear 41, as shown in Fig. 5, rotates the shaft 42, on whichis arranged the miter-gear 43, this gear 43 being in mesh with a pair of top of the box 50 is acircular gears 44. Each of the gears 44 drives a shaft 45, which rotates in a sleeve 46. These two sleeves extend in line, as shown in Fig. 1.

Each shaft 45 has a miter-gear of a pair of gears 47 secured on the end, these gears 47 rotating the pro ehers 48. As shown in Fig. 6, the outer en of the sleeve 46 is provided with a in 49, on which the other gear of the pair 0 gears 47, with its prope ler 48, is adapted to rotate. On their inner ends the sleeves 46 are secured in the box 50, this box being closed on its lower end by means of the iflange 51, which also serves to support the portion 10 of the air-ship. By means of this device if the propellers designed for propulsion are at rest the machine can be moved sid'ewise if the sleeves 46 are in line with the keel, and even if the air-s'hip-is being propelled through the air its direction can be changed by chan ing the direction of the sleeves 46 with their propellers on the end. If necessary, the sleeves 46 can be placed abea m of the ship, and the propellers 48 will then assist in the propelling in a fore or aft direction of the structure.

' It will be seen that I have thus described a ship that is adapted to navigate the air and 1 umbrella-like in their by means of the arrangement and disposition of the propellers can be moved in any desired direction, and some of the mechanisms, if not desired or needed in their normal position, can

be shifted to assume the functions of some of the 0therssuch as, for instance, some of the propulsion-propellers being shifted to elevate and the steering device, if need be, being changed to assist in propelling.

- It will be noticed, too, that the elevatingpropellers having the wings 12 are dishing or eneral contour, and in practice it is found that propellers of this shape are much more eflicient than if they are horizontal.

It will be noticed, too, that various mechanisms can be substituted for that shown to drive the elevating-propellers and that instead of two main elevating-propellers any number may be used.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In combination with a body, 11 rights projecting from the body, braces or the uprights extending longitudinally of the body and engaging the uprights intermediate the ends, spaced collars on the uprights, blades carried by the upper collars, braces for the blades engaging the blades and the lower collars, shafts engaging the upper collars mounted on the free ends of the uprights, means for rotating the shafts, means for propelling the body and means for deflecting the course thereof during its propulsion.

GEORGE G. SCHWABEK. Witnesses:

WARREN B. HUTOHINSON, W-M. H. OAMFIELD. 

